Ivan Torres

Ivan "el Terible" Torres was a Colombian history professor who became a leader of the M-19 revolutionary movement during the Colombian conflict.

Biography
Ivan Torres was a history professor who knew little about guerrilla warfare, but he decided to become a communist revolutionary. Torres founded M-19 as a revolutionary movement that would overthrow the Colombian government, and Torres, his comrade Alejandro, and Alejandro's girlfriend Elisa stole the sword of Simon Bolivar from a museum; they even left a note, saying "Bolivar, your sword returns to the battlefield." Torres and his movement fought against the Colombian Army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare, and in 1981 he decided to extort money from the drug cartels by kidnapping the sister of drug lord Jorge Luis Ochoa. However, he was forced to free Ochoa after he found the bodies of M-19 members back at camp and a warning from Pablo Escobar written in blood on his flag. Torres came to Escobar's mansion with the Sword of Bolivar and told him that he could finish what he started with the sword, but Escobar instead thanked him for the gift and promised to protect him and his family, working as Torres' partner in the struggle to liberate Colombia.